Playwright | Tracetest Integration

What does Playwright do?

Playwright allows developers and testers to automate web browsers, allowing them to quickly build powerful tests against their modern web applications. While newer than Cypress, Playwright is quickly being adapted by development teams.

How does Tracetest work with Playwright?

Playwright excels at driving tests in the browser to check front-end web applications, but with Tracetest, you can take it a step further by integrating synthetic monitoring into your testing strategy. The Tracetest integration with Playwright allows you to apply a trace-based test against the entire application—from the front end to the backend. This is achieved by including a Tracetest npm package, annotating the existing Playwright test to enable the Tracetest, and then capturing a full distributed trace. The results are sent to Tracetest, where you can create assertions to verify the entire process based on the data contained in the distributed trace. This integration enables you to monitor and ensure that all parts of your system, including third-party services, are functioning as expected, providing comprehensive insights into both synthetic and real user journeys.

How do I get started using Tracetest with Playwright?

• Get started.
• Configure Tracetest to communicate with your local environment by running the Tracetest agent.
• Let Tracetest know how it will get the distributed tracing data by configuring the tracing backend.
• See the Playwright example to learn how to add Tracetest to your current Playwright test.
• Read how to use the new Playwright engine to execute end-to-end tests
• Read how to use synthetic monitoring with Playwright and Tracetest
• See documentation on using Playwright engine for true end-to-end tests